That's how vile i am! I live Ireland, I breathe Ireland, and Christ how I loathe it, I wish I were a bloody Scot, that's how bloody awful it is being Irish!

I think philosophy is extremely good training for anyone who wants to do anything. Although that is an idea which people may speak scornfully of now, I think it does teach one to

To be a complete victim may be another source of power.

Art is a kind of artificial memory and the pain which attends all serious art is a sense of that factitiousness.

Only the very greatest art invigorates without consoling.

I see myself as Rhoda, not Mary Tyler Moore.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.